Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-01-19
WASHINGTON NOTES,

. WASHINGTON, January 1.-THE conditio
Of Hon. s. s. Cox is somewhat improve
this morning, but he is quite ill.
The issue OF standard silver dollars frol
the mints during the week, ending Januar
18th, amounted to $264, 900 and the CO..
responding week in 1886, $195,OOO.
The House, by q vote OF yeas 115, nay
1887, refused to take up the Inter.Stat
Commerce conference report to the exclr
sion of motions to suspend the rules.
GeR. Hazen will be buried with militar
honors Wednesday at IL O'Clock from s,
James Church. His remains will be ten
porarily inferred at Oak Hill or Roc
Creek cemetery. The final interment wi
be made after Mrs. Hazen's return fron
Europe, probably at Hiram, Ohio, his oil
home. General Sheridan has charge OF tn
military arrangements of the funeral, bu
the military escort will be under the com
mand OF Colonel Gibson OF the Third al
tillery. The escort will consist OF de
tachment from the Signal Corps artiller,
batteries stationed here and detachmen
from the Marine Corps.
| The President appointed George w. Corr,
to be postmaster OF North Yakima, Wash
ington Territory.
Belmont, OF New York, introduced in tht
house to-day bill to protect American
| vessels against unwarrantable and unlaw.
full determinations in the ports of British
North America.
WAsHINGroN, January 15.-The House
in Committee Of the Whole, considered the
River and Harbor bill, but pending further
debate the House adjourned.
The Secretary of the Navy received a
telegram to-day from Commander B. F.
Day announcing the arrival of the Mohican
at Valparaiso, and stating he was success
full in securing prehistoric stone image
from Easter Island for the Smithsonian
Institute. A German vessel secured one of
these images couple OF years ago. The
Smithsonian authorities wished to obtain
one and requested the Secretary of the
Navy to direct naval vessel to make the
effort in their behalf, when convenient.
dered year ago to stop at Easter Island
and to secure one if possible.
Upon citizens of Tulare and Fresno Coun-
ties in California. to the Department OF
Justice. asking that suit be instituted by
the Government to test the title of the
Southern Pacific Railroad Company to cer-
tain lands in these counties on the ground
that the road was not built on the line des-
ignated by the State charter to said COM
pany, and that the lands were settled upon
prior to the issue of patents to the railroad
company. Land Commissioner Sparks has
that the grant by Congress was
not for a charter line under the California
act, but for line to be designated as pro-
vided by the act OF Congress, making the
yrant, and that the right OF settlers was de-
termined by the date when the railroad
grant took effect upon the lands and not
The dates.
The Secretary OF the Interior has in
,tructed the Attorney General to institute !
against Muckel Bros, ofSt. Helena, Oregon,
or the manufactured value OF timber al |
eyed to have been unlawfally cut from the !
lands in Columbia County, |
Oregon. It is stated in the agents report |
% the department shat this firm have cut |
md removed from Columbia county over |
SOC, 900 feet OF fir, cedar and maple timber, |
BOARD measure, valued at from S8 to $40 |
yer thousand feet when manufactured into |
umber and S. per thous md feet in logs at |
he mill. 1t appears that the cutting, at |
east on a portion of the lands, was done
lnder the color of tille.